Examples Of Innocent In To Kill A Mockingbird
People Are Not Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Some individuals say people are innocent until proven guilty. This is not the case for everybody. For example, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird there are two characters, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley who are thought of badly by some of the people because they are different than the norm. Due to the fact that Boo and Tom are different then the rest, people tend to jump to conclusions. They assume that they are guilty before they are proven guilty.
Tom Robinson, an African-American man, is put on trial for the rape of a nineteen year old girl. Since those in the court system look down upon colored people, his trial is not fair from the start. Both the judge and the members of the jury are white, southern males, and these people do not like African Americans because they believe that they do not deserve to be treated like people and have actual human rights.. For example Tom says to Atticus, “Yes, suh. I felt sorry for her…” (164). At this point Tom was basically digging his own …show more content…
For example in the beginning of the book Scout is describing Boo of how the town says he is, “He is six and a half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time..."(16). Everybody thinks that he is a crazy person just because he never goes outside, so they think that he does crazy stuff. In fact he is actually a kind, curious, and protective person. The only bad things are he is really shy, and he can sometimes be aggressive. Since people started rumors saying that Boo Radley is a bad person everybody started pinning these bad things on him just because people thought he was guilty before he was proven
Some individuals say people are innocent until proven guilty. This is not the case for everybody. For example, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird there are two characters, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley who are thought of badly by some of the people because they are different than the norm. Due to the fact that Boo and Tom are different then the rest, people tend to jump to conclusions. They assume that they are guilty before they are proven guilty.
Tom Robinson, an African-American man, is put on trial for the rape of a nineteen year old girl. Since those in the court system look down upon colored people, his trial is not fair from the start. Both the judge and the members of the jury are white, southern males, and these people do not like African Americans because they believe that they do not deserve to be treated like people and have actual human rights.. For example Tom says to Atticus, “Yes, suh. I felt sorry for her…” (164). At this point Tom was basically digging his own …show more content…
For example in the beginning of the book Scout is describing Boo of how the town says he is, “He is six and a half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time..."(16). Everybody thinks that he is a crazy person just because he never goes outside, so they think that he does crazy stuff. In fact he is actually a kind, curious, and protective person. The only bad things are he is really shy, and he can sometimes be aggressive. Since people started rumors saying that Boo Radley is a bad person everybody started pinning these bad things on him just because people thought he was guilty before he was proven